KLM will retire its last three Boeing 747-400s in October. In March, KLM announced it would retire the seven total passenger airplanes that were in its fleet, a move prompted by the coronavirus crisis. The company had already planned to stop using the wide-bodied aircraft but was not planning to do so until 2021. But…
Ryanair is to close its base at Frankfurt Hahn Airport, and bases at Berlin Tegel and Duesseldorf airports are likely to shut down at the end of the summer after German pilots rejected proposed pay cuts, the Irish airline said on Tuesday. The moves, which will include an undisclosed number of pilot job cuts, come…
An Ethiopian Airlines cargo plane caught fire at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Wednesday afternoon. Fire broke out from the tail of the Boeing 777-200 aircraft around 4pm and developed rapidly. The cabin roof near the tail was burnt through and the plane became engulfed in heavy smoke. The Shanghai Fire Control Bureau said…
Australia’s national airline has said goodbye to an era of aviation that lasted half a century and encapsulated many major moments in the nation’s history. Qantas’ final 747-400 plane has taken off from Sydney Airport. It paraded off the tarmac with an arc of water jet streams to the applause of onlookers eager to mark…
A man that fell from around 3,500 feet and landed in a Clapham back garden is still yet to be identified more than a year on from the incident. The suspected stowaway fell from a Kenya Airways flight that was preparing to land at Heathrow Airport a short distance away. He is believed to have…
At the end of June, the EU Commission gave the green light for the federal government’s nine billion euro support program for Lufthansa, which had been hard hit by the Corona crisis. The aid is subject to a number of conditions: in addition to the slots, there is also a ban on dividend payments and…
The FAA said the public will have 45 days to comment on “proposed design changes and crew procedures to mitigate the safety issues. The FAA said on Tuesday it plans to issue a proposed airworthiness directive for the Boeing 737 MAX in the “near future” to address changes made since the plane was grounded in…
According to an agreement Air France is slated to operate 28 flights to Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru between July 18 and Aug. 1 United Airlines will operate 18 flights between Delhi and Mumbai and Newark and San Francisco, respectively, from July 17 until July 31. Germany’s flag carrier Lufthansa and U.K.-based British Airways will also…
The UAE’s national airline, Etihad Airways, will resume passenger flights from Abu Dhabi to Shanghai, from July 27. “The service will operate with an initial weekly flight using a Boeing 777-300ER, featuring Business and Economy cabins,” the airline announced in a statement on Monday. Guests travelling on Etihad Airways flights to China will be required…
The airline has announced it will be resuming flights to Addis Ababa, Tehran, Guangzhou, and Oslo in the coming weeks. Flights to Addis Ababa will resume from August 1 to Tehran from July 17, to Guangzhou from July 25th, and to Oslo from August 4. The airline will also resume flight operations to Stockholm Arlanda…
Finnair said on Monday it would resume flying to mainland China on July 23 when it re-opens its Helsinki-Shanghai route, beginning with a weekly flight, after it received permission from the Chinese authorities.
Due to demand, Emirates will be operating an A380 to Manchester daily on 1st August. From 1st September the airline will be operating 3 daily flights to Manchester.
